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Name: rmT116609 Date: 08/13/2003 A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST : There is an intensive discussion about adding operator overloading to the java language Please also see: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4087427.html JUSTIFICATION : This post is made to give the people the chance to discuss and vote. (Incident Review ID: 199033) ====================================================================== Name: rmT116609 Date: 08/12/2004 A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST : Even though there's a sort of JVM operator overloading (see toString or the == in enum), this language feature is still missing as a general language extension. JUSTIFICATION : Operator overloading can be avoided using functions, of course, but there are cases where the code become more readable, simpler and self-documenting. I do know all the pros and cons about this, but as I heard similar things for some of the new great improvement on the way with 1.5, I don't see why the operator overloading has been left apart. EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR : EXPECTED - The behaviour would be much like the normal c++ behaviour. ACTUAL - No behaviour can be described as it's a non permitted syntax expression. ---------- BEGIN SOURCE ---------- public class MultiTierApp { ... } public class Tier1 implements Tier { } public class Tier2 implements Tier { } MultiTierApp mta = (new Tier1) + (new Tier2); ---------- END SOURCE ---------- (Review ID: 296755) ======================================================================
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